2018–19 Al-Hilal FC season

Al-Hilal
	2018–19 season
President	Mohammed bin Faisal
Manager	Jorge Jesus
Stadium	King Saud University Stadium; Faisal bin Fahd Stadium
SPL	1st
Super Cup	Winners
King Cup	Round of 64
Champions League	Group stage
Sheikh Zayed Cup	Round of 16
Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup	Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Léo Bonatini (11); All: Léo Bonatini (14)
Highest home attendance	35,033 vs Al-Ittihad (28 October 2016)
Lowest home attendance	3,921 vs Al-Khaleej (16 February 2017)
Average home league attendance	15,387
Home colours	Away colours
← 2015–16	2017–18 →
	All statistics correct as of 21 February 2017.

The 2018–19 season is Al-Hilal's 43rd consecutive season in the top flight of Saudi football and 61st year in existence as a football club.^[1] Along with the Pro League, the club will compete in the Saudi Super Cup, the King Cup, Arab Club Champions Cup, the Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup and the Champions League. The season covers the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

Squad information

As of 24 August 2018^[2]^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Abdullah Al-Mayouf
2	DF	Mohammed Al-Breik
3	MF	Carlos Eduardo (vice-captain)
4	DF	Alberto Botía
5	DF	Ali Al Bulaihi
6	MF	Abdulmalek Al-Khaibri
7	MF	Salman Al-Faraj
8	MF	Abdullah Otayf
10	MF	Mohammad Al-Shalhoub (captain)
11	FW	Gelmin Rivas
12	DF	Yasser Al-Shahrani
13	DF	Hassan Kadesh
14	MF	Muhannad Fallatah
15	MF	Ahmed Al-Fiqi
16	MF	Nasser Al-Dawsari
17	DF	Abdullah Al-Hafith

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Bafétimbi Gomis
19	MF	André Carrillo (on loan from Benfica)
20	MF	Fahad Al-Rashidi
21	MF	Omar Abdulrahman (on loan from Al Ain)
22	DF	Mohammed Al-Baqaawi
23	GK	Marwan Al-Haidari
24	MF	Nawaf Al Abed
26	GK	Ali Al-Habsi
28	MF	Mohamed Kanno
29	MF	Salem Al-Dawsari
30	GK	Mohammed Al-Waked
33	DF	Ahmed Sharahili
44	FW	Mukhtar Fallatah
70	DF	Mohammed Jahfali
77	FW	Omar Kharbin

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	Previous club	Fee	Source
26 June 2018	DF	Alberto Botía	Olympiacos	Free	^[4]
24 August 2018	FW	Bafétimbi Gomis	Galatasaray	€6,000,000	^[5]

Loans in

Date	Pos.	Name	Parent club	End date	Source
20 July 2018	MF	André Carrillo	Benfica	End of season	^[6]
9 August 2018	MF	Omar Abdulrahman	Al Ain	End of season	^[7]

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	New club	Fee	Source
27 May 2018	DF	Abdullah Al-Zori	Al-Wehda	Free	^[8]
27 May 2018	DF	Faisel Darwish	Al-Wehda	Free	^[9]
3 June 2018	DF	Ahmed Ba Masoud	Al-Fayha	Free	^[10]
1 July 2018	FW	Léo Bonatini	Wolverhampton	Undisclosed	^[11]
23 August 2018	DF	Osama Hawsawi	Al-Wehda	Free	^[12]

Loans out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	End date	Source
12 June 2018	FW	Mojahed Al-Munee	Al-Hazem	End of season	^[13]
25 July 2018	MF	Ezequiel Cerutti	Independiente	End of season	^[14]
7 August 2018	DF	Naif Kariri	Al-Fayha	End of season	^[15]
7 August 2018	FW	Abdulrahman Al-Yami	Al-Fayha	End of season	^[16]
15 August 2018	DF	Anas Zabani	Al-Batin	End of season	^[17]
23 August 2018	DF	Muteb Al-Mufarrej	Al-Taawoun	End of season	^[18]
23 August 2018	DF	Omar Al-Owda	Al-Fayha	End of season	^[19]
23 August 2018	MF	Majed Al-Najrani	Al-Fayha	End of season	^[20]
29 August 2018	MF	Achraf Bencharki	Lens	End of season	^[21]

Pre-season and friendlies

22 July 2018 Friendly	Al-Hilal	3–0	Radomlje	Lienz, Austria
17:00 CEST	Carlos Eduardo 16' Kharbin 32' Rivas 54'	Report		Stadium: Dolomiten Stadium

25 July 2018 Friendly	Al-Hilal	0–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Lienz, Austria
19:00 CEST		Report	Lukebakio 30' Ducksch 90+1'

29 July 2018 Friendly	Al-Hilal	3–1	Akhisarspor	Lienz, Austria
18:00 CEST	Carlos Eduardo 33' Kharbin 37' Al-Shalhoub 72'	Report	89'	Stadium: Dolomiten Stadium

1 August 2018 Friendly	Al-Hilal	1–1	Udinese	Lurnfeld, Austria
18:00 CEST	Fallatah 75'	Report	Machís 53'	Stadium: Möllbrück Stadium

Competitions

Win Draw Loss

Saudi Super Cup

As champions of the 2017–18 Pro League, Al-Hilal took on the 2018 King Cup winners, Al-Ittihad, for the season-opening Saudi Super Cup.

18 August 2018 (2018-08-18) Final	Al-Hilal	2–1	Al-Ittihad	London, United Kingdom
19:30 BST	Carlos Eduardo 35' Botía 44' Rivas 62'	Report	Jonas 44' El Ahmadi 67', 90+2'	Stadium: Loftus Road Attendance: 16,300 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

Pro League

Al-Hilal entered the competition as the defending champions.

League table

Template:2018–19 Saudi Professional League table

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
10	9	1	0	24	7	+17	28	4	0	0	11	3	+8	5	1	0	13	4	+9

Last updated: 25 November 2018.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

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Matches

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

Win Draw Loss Postponed

31 August 2018 1	Al-Hilal	1–0	Al-Fayha	Riyadh
18:55	S.Al-Dawsari 28', 74' Al Bulaihi 39' Kanno 77' (pen.) Al-Breik 79' N.Al-Dawsari 83'	Report	Asprilla 21' Al-Owda 49', 63' Kanno 73', 80'	Stadium: King Saud University Stadium Attendance: 22,076 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

15 September 2018 2	Al-Raed	1–3	Al-Hilal	Buraidah
18:50	Doukha 40' Hammoudan 52' Al-Amri 54' Farhan 74'	Report	Gomis 41' Abdulrahman 45' Carlos Eduardo 55' (pen.) Botía 68', 73' Al-Faraj 74' Al-Habsi 83' Al-Shahrani 86' Al-Breik 90+4'	Stadium: King Abdullah Sport City Stadium Attendance: 6,833 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

20 September 2018 3	Al-Hilal	3–1	Al-Batin	Riyadh
20:45	Al-Faraj 27' Al-Bulaihi 32' Gomis 41', 45+4'	Report	Crysan 49'	Stadium: King Saud University Stadium Attendance: 22,078 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

24 September 2018 4	Al-Fateh	2–3	Al-Hilal	Al-Hasa
18:10	Oueslati 44' (pen.), 68' (pen.), 45+1' Aguirregaray 52' Bangoura 90+1'	Report	Kadesh 40' Al-Habsi 42' Gomis 59' Carlos Eduardo 61' Rivas 90+4'	Stadium: Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium Attendance: 9,050 Referee: Paolo Valeri (Italy)

20 October 2018 6	Al-Shabab	0–1	Al-Hilal	Riyadh
19:45	Salem 50' Euller 61' Bahebri 67' Benlamri 90+4'	Report	Al-Dawsari 50' Al-Breik 63' Kanno 65', 74' Al-Bulaihi 82'	Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

25 October 2018 7	Al-Hilal	3–1	Al-Ittihad	Riyadh
20:30	Kanno 8' (pen.) Al-Bulaihi 47' Gomis 74' Botía 81' Yasser Al-Shahrani 86' Carlos Eduardo 90+5' (pen.)	Report	Pešić 19' Al-Muziel 26' Jurman 77' Carleto 85' Assiri 90+4'	Stadium: King Saud University Stadium Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

2 November 2018 8	Al-Qadsiah	0–2	Al-Hilal	Khobar
17:35	Fallatah 44'	Report	Al-Dawsari 44' (pen.) Kanno 66' Al-Shahrani 86'	Stadium: Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

6 November 2018 5	Al-Hilal	4–1	Al-Ettifaq	Riyadh
17:55	Al-Dawsari 16' Carrillo 45+1' Gomis 55', 70'	Report	Al-Robeai 38' Guanca 68'	Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 10,112 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)

11 November 2018 9	Al-Wehda	0–3	Al-Hilal	Mecca
18:20		Report	Al-Faraj 18' Carlos Eduardo 29' Al-Dawsari 45+2' Al-Breik 90'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 32,567 Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)

24 November 2018 10	Al-Faisaly	1–1	Al-Hilal	Al Majma'ah
17:50	Al-Bakr 31' Puljić 78' Al-Qahtani 90'	Report	Al Bulaihi 22' Al-Faraj 80' (pen.) Al-Breik 89'	Stadium: King Salman Sport City Stadium Attendance: 3,498 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

King Cup

Al-Hilal will enter the 2019 King Cup in the Round of 64 alongside the other Pro League teams.

AFC Champions League

Group stage

The Group Stage draw is set to be held in December 2018

Arab Club Champions Cup

Round of 32

12 August 2018 First leg	Al-Hilal	1–0	Al-Shabab	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20:30 AST	Al-Breik 23'	Report		Stadium: King Saud University Stadium Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)

29 September 2018 Second leg	Al-Shabab	0–1 (0–2 agg.)	Al-Hilal	Seeb, Oman
18:00 AST		Report	Carlos Eduardo 61'	Stadium: Al-Seeb Stadium Referee: Ali Sabah (Iraq)

Round of 16

29 October 2018 First leg	Al-Hilal	4–0	Al-Naft	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20:00 AST	Gomis 35' (pen.) Carrillo 61' Al-Shahrani 67' Abu Baker 70' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Referee: Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)

30 November 2018 Second leg	Al-Naft	v	Al-Hilal	Erbil, Iraq
17:00 AST				Stadium: Franso Hariri Stadium

Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup

As champions of the 2017–18 Pro League, Al-Hilal took on the 2017–18 Egypt Cup winners, Zamalek, for the Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup.

6 October 2018 (2018-10-06) Final	Al-Hilal	1–2	Zamalek	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20:00 AST	Kharbin 57'	Report	Hamed 24' Nagguez 40' Kasongo 45+1' Sassi 64'	Stadium: King Saud University Stadium Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Statistics

Appearances

Last updated on 24 November 2018.

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Pro League		King Cup		Champions League		Sheikh Zayed Cup		Saudi Super Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Abdullah Al-Mayouf	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
26	GK		Ali Al-Habsi	12	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
30	GK		Mohammed Al-Waked	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF		Mohammed Al-Breik	11	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
4	DF		Alberto Botía	12	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
5	DF		Ali Al Bulaihi	13	1	10	1	0	0	0	0	3	0
12	DF		Yasser Al-Shahrani	9	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
13	DF		Hassan Kadesh	7	0	5+1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	DF		Mohammed Al-Baqaawi	2	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
33	DF		Ahmed Sharahili	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
70	DF		Mohammed Jahfali	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
3	MF		Carlos Eduardo	13	5	10	4	0	0	0	0	3	1
7	MF		Salman Al-Faraj	8	1	6+1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
8	MF		Abdullah Otayf	10	0	2+6	0	0	0	0	0	1+1	0
10	MF		Mohammad Al-Shalhoub	7	0	0+4	0	0	0	0	0	0+3	0
14	MF		Muhannad Fallatah	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF		Ahmed Al-Fiqi	3	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
16	MF		Nasser Al-Dawsari	3	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0	1+1	0
19	MF		André Carrillo	10	2	7	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
20	MF		Fahad Al-Rashidi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	MF		Omar Abdulrahman	5	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		Mohamed Kanno	13	4	10	4	0	0	0	0	3	0
29	MF		Salem Al-Dawsari	12	3	9	3	0	0	0	0	3	0
Forwards
11	FW		Gelmin Rivas	8	1	1+7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	FW		Bafétimbi Gomis	11	8	9+1	7	0	0	0	0	1	1
44	FW		Mukhtar Fallatah	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0
77	FW		Omar Kharbin	6	0	1+3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Players sent out on loan this season
27	MF		Achraf Bencharki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Pro League	Sheikh Zayed Cup	Saudi Super Cup	Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup	Total
1	18	FW	Bafétimbi Gomis	7	1	0	0	8
2	3	MF	Carlos Eduardo	4	1	1	0	6
3	28	MF	Mohamed Kanno	4	0	0	0	4
4	29	MF	Salem Al-Dawsari	3	0	0	0	3
5	11	FW	Gelmin Rivas	1	0	1	0	2
5	19	MF	André Carrillo	1	1	0	0	2
7	2	DF	Mohammed Al-Breik	0	1	0	0	1
	5	DF	Ali Al Bulaihi	1	0	0	0	1
	7	MF	Salman Al-Faraj	1	0	0	0	1
	12	DF	Yasser Al-Shahrani	0	1	0	0	1
	21	MF	Omar Abdulrahman	1	0	0	0	1
	77	FW	Omar Kharbin	0	0	0	1	1
Own goal				0	1	0	0	1
Total				24	6	2	1	33

Last Updated: 25 November 2018

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